Quote Originally Posted by Martyr View Post
We're really excited about user notes because it means that other people are paying attention to us.
If anything, that's what the individual user note does to me. The number means close to nothing to me, after all it's a number. To take that number as a measurement of popularity or attention is a bit one-dimensional, just look at Cid or BoB or, in fact, lots of veterans on the site who has a few hundred user notes if even that.

Quote Originally Posted by Martyr View Post
Remember that all us forum goers are here because we're socially starved in the real world. The smallest attention from anybody is a titillating thrill.
Generalising a bit aren't we?